- Japan: Regime deploys its first long-range missiles
Source: ABC News
“Japan’s first long-range missile was deployed at a southwestern army camp, officials said Tuesday, as the country pushes to bolster its offensive capabilities. The upgraded Type-12 land-to-ship missiles, developed and produced by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, became operational at Camp Kengun in Kumamoto prefecture. … The upgraded Type-12 missile has a range of about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), a significant extension from the 200-kilometer (125-mile) range of the original that would allow it to reach mainland China. The deployment of the long-range missile gives Japan a ‘standoff’ capability, meaning it can strike enemy missile bases from afar, marking a break from the self-defense-only policy the country long followed under its pacifist constitution.” (03/31/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/japan-deploys-long-range-missiles-131566210
- Trump regime sues Minnesota regime as part of federal school sports takeover attempt
Source: United Press International
“The Justice Department is suing the Minnesota Department of Education, asking a federal court to force it to comply with the Trump administration’s policies prohibiting transgender student-athletes from competing in girls’ sports. … Federal prosecutors are asking the court to rule that the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League are violating Title IX’s prohibition on sex-based discrimination over their policies allowing transgender student-athletes at federally funded schools to compete in girls’ sports and use spaces designated for girls, such as bathrooms and changing rooms.” (03/31/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/03/31/Trump-sues-Minnesota-transgender-sports/4431774932239/
- Australia: Regime whines at, threatens social media platforms to make their stupid and evil social media ban “work”
Source: Independent [UK]
“Australia’s e-safety commissioner warned platforms like Meta, YouTube and TikTok of ‘major gaps’ in their enforcement of the social media ban for under-16s, almost four months after the law came into effect. ‘While social media platforms have taken some initial action, I am concerned through our compliance monitoring that some may not be doing enough to comply with Australian law,’ commissioner Julie Inman Grant said in a statement on Tuesday. The legislation requires 10 of the largest social media networks, including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook, and X, to keep under-16s away or face fines of up to A$49.5m (£26.5m), making it one of the world’s toughest digital restrictions. … Ms Grant said the watchdog was ‘currently investigating potential non-compliance’ by Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube.” (03/31/26)
- Trump’s War on Lawyers Is a Threat to Everyone
Source: The Dispatch
by Greg Lukianoff & Adam Goldstein“Everybody understands, at least instinctively, why it matters when a president threatens the press. People also more or less understand why it matters when he menaces universities, museums, or other cultural institutions. Those are visible targets, and they read as political in an obvious way.
Attacks on law firms land differently. Part of that is because many major firms are hardly natural objects of public sympathy. Most everyday Americans won’t shed many tears for institutions associated with enormous hourly rates, corporate power, and a profession that people tend to joke about until they need a lawyer. … But that perception is exactly why this threat is so easy to underestimate.” (03/31/26) - Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life
Source: Wired
by Brendan I Koerner“For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown — pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.” (03/31/26)
- Consumption Tax on the Horizon
Source: Law & Liberty
by Mitch Daniels“Entitlement costs keep rising, which means new experiments in taxation are coming. They may already be here.” (03/31/26)
- The United States Is Already Headed for a Forever War
Source: The American Conservative
by Jude Russo“Let’s all give a hand for Marco Rubio, secretary of state, favored champion of the White House, and all-around cretinous worm. The Amazing Plastic Man — the adjective refers to his flexible principles, not his increasingly inflexible face — was hitting the airwaves this Monday morning to articulate the latest version of what the Trump administration regards as its war aims. Excuse me, military operation aims; President Donald Trump has figured out the One Weird Trick around constitutional checks on executive war powers. You just have to use the right words! … Stupendously expensive and destructive military operations every six to 18 months for the foreseeable future does not seem like an appreciably better outcome than the Bush-era occupations.” (03/31/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-united-states-is-already-headed-for-a-forever-war/
- Inflated Grades Deflate Future Earnings
Source: The Daily Economy
by Julia R Cartwright“Educators continue to debate a question that sounds philosophical but is actually quite practical: when a student earns a diploma, what exactly have they earned? Is it proof of real, transferable, labor-market-ready skills? Or is it a signal, a flag planted in the employer’s field of view that says this person showed up, tried hard, and turned things in on time? Most honest observers land somewhere in the middle. Yes, school teaches skills. And yes, the diploma itself also signals something beyond the skills taught. The degree is both product and receipt. New research throws a wrench into both sides of that supposed balance.” (03/31/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/inflated-grades-deflate-future-earnings/
- What’s behind Trump’s 180-degree turn, allowing Russian oil to Cuba?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Lee Schlenker“In a positive twist, the Trump administration said it does not plan to block a Russian oil tanker from delivering 730,000 barrels of crude to Cuba, which has been suffering from acute fuel shortages since the U.S. imposed a de facto oil blockade on the island in late January. … On the one hand, the administration may be concerned about the dire humanitarian impacts of ongoing fuel shortages and a potential migratory crisis brewing just off U.S. shores in an election season. The island’s worsening crisis risks undermining U.S. moral standing and leverage in ongoing negotiations with Cuba, particularly if the country collapses before a deal can be reached. On the other hand, the U.S. may simply need to focus on other priorities.” (03/30/26)
- The Tragicomic Death Throes of Canada’s (Former) Workers’ Party
Source: Quillette
by Jonathan Kay“The New Democratic Party, which once championed the country’s unions, is now in the hands of a radicalised anti-Israel activist who wants to nationalise grocery sales and shut down oil production.” (03/30/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/03/30/the-tragicomic-death-throes-of-canadas-former-workers-party-2/
- The images a Florida city says only it can use
Source: Expression
by helloiamcarrie“Imagine you are engaging in the time-honored American tradition of criticizing your local government. You air your complaints on a website you’ve set up to report on city news — and then the city threatens you with legal action and potential jail time, all because some of your comments feature the city’s seal and logos. That’s what happened to Kyle L’Hommedieu and the local watchdog group he chairs, Take Out The Trash Committee of Cape Coral.” (03/30/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/the-images-a-florida-city-says-only
- Sony’s Scam Scuttled
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can’t be forced to deprive customers of Internet access on the basis of an unverified complaint about copyright violation. And can’t be held liable for refusing to kill a customer’s access. … Had the high court ruled otherwise, the consequences would have been dire.” (03/30/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/03/30/sonys-scam-scuttled/
- Don’t Let the Fed Off the Hook for “Oil Inflation”
Source: Independent Institute
by Kristian Fors“Milton Friedman once famously stated that ‘inflation always and everywhere is a monetary phenomenon.’ Inflation results from an increase in the money supply and a decline in the real value of fiat currency relative to goods and services. Prices can increase for a variety of reasons unrelated to the money supply, but that is not inflation. While the Iran conflict is certainly going to cause government policy-fueled price increases, there is a technical difference between that and inflation. Military actions do not directly cause inflation; however, they can be enabled by inflation, given the government’s capacity to print money and expand the budget.” (03/30/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/30/not-everthing-is-inflation/
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 03/30/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Threatens To ‘Blow Up’ Iran’s Desalination, Israel Passes Palestinian Death Penalty, and More.” (03/30/26)
- Nonzero, 03/30/26
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Averting a Superintelligence Takeover | Robert Wright & Andrea Miotti.” (03/30/26)
- You Are Paying for Retirees’ Lavish Lifestyles
Source: Reason
“How America’s old-age entitlement system became a sprawling lifestyle-subsidy program that steals from the poor to give to the rich.” (03/30/26)
https://reason.com/video/2026/03/30/you-are-paying-for-retirees-lavish-lifestyles/